Can anyone recommend some good SCHOLARLY, NON-FICTION war history books (not novels)?
Some I’ve read are:
Chandler–The Campaigns of Napoleon
Shelby Foote–The Civil War, 3 vols.
Stephen Sears–Chancellorsville; Landscape Turned Red: Antietam; Gettysburg
Victor Davis Hansen–A War Like No Other
Adrian Goldsworthy–The Punic Wars
Cornelius Ryan–Longest Day; A Bridge Too Far
I’m looking for narrative accounts of specific battles or campaigns (any era or locale), based on solid research. Thank you for your suggestions!
- aviatordude
Tags: Adrian Goldsworthy, Campaigns, Fiction War, History Books, War 3
April 11th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Start classical: Thucydites, Herodotus.
Modern writer you’ve missed: John Keegan, start with “Face of Battle”. For a modern writer on ancient wars, go for Donald Kagan.
For the millenia in between, I can suggest more writers who were there, with first and second hand accounts:
Xenephon (Greece, Persia)
Joinville (Crusades)
Ernst Junger (Storm of Steel, WW I)
Bernal Diaz (The Conquest of New Spain)
Anna Comnena (The Alexiad)
April 12th, 2009 at 4:06 am
the chronicles of narnia.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Shots from the Front - The British Soldier by Richard Holmes
It has photos that were never published at the time. Fantastic book
There are others on the same webpage given